15 best nonfiction books of 2011: CSMonitor picks

15 bests nonfiction titles of 2011, according to the Monitor's reviewers

10. "Elizabeth and Hazel," by David Margolick

It was a famous and shocking photo. A white student – face twisted with hatred – shrieked at a black student during the violent 1957 integration of Little Rock’s Central High School. Vanity Fair journalist David Margolick traveled to Little Rock to meet these two women today and Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock (Yale University Press, 320 pp.) crafted a tale of race and friendship that Monitor reviewer Randy Dotinga calls “an intensely personal story of two women caught in history’s web.” (CSMonitor.com review, 10/3/11

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